Quotes About Excellence

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players.

Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Of course we always want to win, and train for it, but I also care about the quality of my performance. I want to provide a great spectacle for those who are at home.

The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.

There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.

The spectacular catches are the ones that you remember detail for detail. The ones with two hands, it's kind of routine.

Football is spectacular and it has to stay spectacular in every sense.

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

Everyone should play like Adrian Peterson. This guy does everything full speed. Pro Bowl - promoting himself for MVP.

Me, personally, I'm going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That's what I do best.

I'm looking to run the fastest, but I want to prove that I'm more than a speed guy.

I think the most complete performance has to be the spell I bowled in Bangladesh. In Fatullah. That was one heck of a spell. Bowled over a period of two days, maybe a bit more. That was a delight.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

I read all these books about excellence, and then I went into spirituality, and all these books were really about leveling up. Being the best version of yourself.

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took it all, and I think that was what was so energizing about it and unreplicable.

Juventus have to win always, we must spit blood every time we step on to the pitch.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.

Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.